It would be stupid to bring a large contingent of the ukraine army to the crimea. they would be cut off from resupply and quickly surrounded.
Better to build two or three pontoon bridges over the dneiper with plenty of air cover so the 10k uke soldiers armor and artillery can cross the river. then fight their way up the south side of the dneiper river to uke lines. That would provide a land route to the rear of the rus lines.
then the ukes could drive a much larger army behind rus lines and cut off their supplies. The whole rus army would be forced to retreat or surrender from the south.
“the ukes could drive a much larger army behind rus lines and cut off their supplies. The whole rus army would be forced to retreat or surrender from the south.”
I have little knowledge of military strategy. Yet, I believe the Ukrainian military is making every effort to decrease stockpiles, ships, trains and control roads and bridges to end re-supply.
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The Ukrainians aren’t going to do any kind of Overlord landings in Crimea.
There will be raids to take out available strategic targets (like the radar installation recently hit), but they have none of the infrastructure to support landing and kind of sizable force.
Demonstrations and raids just require the Russians to spread themselves thinner.
Evicting the Russians from Crimea would be a hard fought march south through the neck with all of its natural barriers. Milley was accurate when he said that was a tough task and wasn’t going to happen this year. What he has told the press that he has told the Congress certainly aligns with what we see happening.
If he had told Congress in March of 2022 that Ukraine only had 10 days left I wonder how many people on this forum would believe him…